Speeches of the Late Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, in the Irish Parliament in 1780 and 1782

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57 페이지 SECRETARY Fox acquainted the House , that he had a message from his
Majesty ; and he presented the same to the House , and it was read by Mr .
Speaker ( all the members of the House being uncovered ) , and is as followeth :
GEORGE R ...

58 페이지 Ordered , That the said Address be presented to his Majesty by such members of
this House as are of his Majesty ' s most honourable Privy Council . IRISH . - 16th
April , 1782 . The Right Hon . Mr . Secretary of State informed the House , that ...

61 페이지 The Right Hon . the Secretary of State reported to the House , that his Grace the
Lord Lieutenant had been attended with the Address of this House to his Majesty
, and that thereupon his Grace was pleased to return the following answer :“ I ...

62 페이지 I have it in command from his Majesty to inform this House , that his Majesty
being concerned to find that discontents and jealousies are prevailing among his
loyal subjects of this country , upon matters of great weight and importance , his ...

69 페이지 Accordingly Mr . Speaker , with the House , went up to the House of Peers ; and
being returned , Mr . Speaker reported , that the House , at the desire of the Lords
, authorized by virtue of his Majesty ' s commission afore - mentioned , had been
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18 페이지 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags : he may be naked, he shall not be in iron.

4 페이지 - ... her enemies are a host, pouring upon her from all quarters of the earth; her armies are dispersed; the sea is not hers; she has no minister, no ally, no admiral, none in whom she long confides, and no general whom she has not disgraced; the balance of her fate is in the hands of Ireland; you are not only her last connection, you are the only nation in Europe that is not her enemy.

8 페이지 - ... or cut off the nation's right hand ; greatly emancipate or fundamentally destroy. We may talk plausibly to England, but so long as she exercises a power to bind this country, so long are the nations in a state of war ; the claims of the one go against the liberty of the other, and the sentiments of the latter go to oppose those claims to the last drop of her blood.

18 페이지 - ... by the arms, inspiration, and providence of the present moment, tell us the rule by which we shall go — assert the law of Ireland — declare the liberty of the land. " I will not be answered by a public lie in the shape of an amendment ; neither, speaking for the subject's freedom, am I to hear of faction.

15 페이지 - ... law. Never was such a revolution accomplished in so short a time, and with such public tranquillity. In what situation would those men who call themselves friends of constitution and of government have left you ? They would have left you without a title, as they...

1 페이지 - I have entreated an attendance on this day, that you might, in the most public manner, deny the claim of the British Parliament to make law for Ireland, and with one voice lift up your hands against it.

62 페이지 - His Majesty being concerned to find that discontents and jealousies are prevailing among his loyal subjects of this country, upon matters of great weight and importance, His Majesty recommends it to this House to take the same into their most serious consideration, in order to such a final adjustment as may give mutual satisfaction to his kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.